Example sentences of "[Wh pn] [adv] came [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now an acting sergeant , he had a platoon of forty men to prepare for battle , all of whom still came under the overall command of Captain Trentham , who had n't been seen since the day Tommy had been released . |
| 2 | Some of the original brigadistas , the young literacy teachers , who mostly came from the urban areas , also continued to work in adult education , and others became teachers in the formal school system . |
| 3 | He selected 47 pilots who mostly came from the ranks of the retired or off-duty military with extensive T–6 and formation experience . |
| 4 | Let loose on the family estancia during the holidays , he and Pedro had played cops and robbers on horses , and later polo with his cousins , who all came from large houses nearby . |
| 5 | Staff affected , who generally came from Marxism-Leninism , history , education , law , philosophy or economics faculties , would receive 70 per cent pay for six months . |
| 6 | What little human warmth I required I garnered from the aunts and cousins , who still came to Cliff Top for their annual holiday . |
| 7 | Those people who innocently came to my house this evening , expecting a pleasant dinner , good wine , enjoyable conversation — and instead were treated to a vulgar display ? ’ |
| 8 | He was the only father who ever came to our primary school football matches . |
| 9 | The two men , who both came from a small village in Lithuania , almost hero-worshipped the handsome Italian with his love of liquor and of women . |
| 10 | In Washington , Watson and his wife took lunch with President and Mrs Cleveland who later came to that night 's lecture . |
| 11 | The gallery , a relatively small space , allowing for the hanging of twelve to fifteen paintings , will be run by Christophe Lázar , who originally came to Colnaghi 's after eight years in private banking at Schroders in New York and investment banking at Credit Suisse First Boston in London . |
| 12 | It is an attractive modern hotel , run pleasantly and professionally by the Sinclair family who originally came from Orkney . |
| 13 | A year head who originally came from the secondary modern school at the time of reorganisation had this to say on the status of the school : |
| 14 | Extensive as the network of government may have been , kings delegated much power to the handful of men holding the office of ealdorman ( or earl ) , who often came from families rich in land . |
| 15 | Another was a governor who frequently came into Russells Hall . |
| 16 | Its three founders are no longer connected with the firm and its new president Roy Wright , who reportedly came by his job complements of Sun president Scott McNealy , has a business plan that says , the company will grow from $10m to $100m — he also has plans to take RDI public . |
| 17 | Of course he had to meet Bruneau , who sometimes came to our house , and through Bruneau he met Dolmetsch , who interested him in the recorder . |
| 18 | Hrun going about the business of being a hero , he realised , was quite different to the wine-bibbing , carousing Hrun who occasionally came to Ankh-Morpork . |
| 19 | Sensibly , from the point of view of the regime , Nicholas had taken the precaution of consigning the one prominent conspirator of 1825 who actually came from Siberia , Grigorii Baten'kov , to the Peter and Paul Fortress in St Petersburg . |